The Ninth Circuit has determined that an asylum applicant abandoned her application for asylum by failing to complete the biometrics process. The court faulted the applicant and her counsel for not following up with USCIS when a receipt notice was not timely issued after the submission of the request for biometrics.
The full text of Gonzalez-Veliz v. Garland can be found here:
https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2021/05/04/19-72090.pdf